YouTube Buys Next New Networks, a Video Producer
SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube, the video site owned by Google, formally announced on Monday that it had acquired Next New Networks, a Web video production company, in its biggest effort yet to move beyond s...
Microsoft Is Said to Pay Nokia More Than $1 Billion in Accord
Microsoft Corp. will pay Nokia Oyj more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows-based handsets as part of their smartphone software agreement, according to two people with knowledge of the term...
Apple to cut 32 games, some hardware from retail stores
Apple is in the process of cutting software titles and some hardware peripherals from its retails stores to make room for other services. — Sources that I've spoken with said Apple is going to expan...
Ex-Microsoft Employee: 5 Things The Kayak Deal Tells Us About Bing
On Friday, Microsoft announced a partnership with Kayak to provide travel results. Jay Bhatti is a former Microsoft employee who founded the people-search engine Spock. Here's what he sees in the de...
Pay-as-you-go shocker! CDMA iPhone 4 makes its way to Cricket Wireless (via jailbreak)
As any astute follower of the “pay-as-you-go” world knows, there are quite a few back alley Cricket dealers (and quite a few main street ones as well) that will happily flash any phone you give …
Windows Phone 7 not reversing Microsoft's mobile slide
From November to January — the first full three months that Windows Phone 7 was available — Microsoft's share of the U.S. smart-phone market continued to slide, new data from comScore shows. — Micro...
Latest Geminoid Is Incredibly Realistic
Okay, I admit it... I found myself wondering whether this was in fact a real robot, or actually a fake robot.
iPad 2 Extends Apple's Lead: Apple Will Dominate The Tablet Market For Years
Apple's iPad 2 isn't a massive advance over the first iPad, but with hardware, software, apps, distribution, and pricing combined, it is still by far the best tablet on the market.
Sina launches location-based service
Sina, China's biggest web portal, just released its own check-in service, named WeiLingDi, which roughly translates to “Micro Territory.” It hopes to attract users with seamless integration to its mi...
Used iPads Selling Quickly Online
Steve Jobs was still on stage introducing the new iPad 2 last week when my inbox and Twitter stream started filling up with the same question : “I want the iPad 2, but what can I do with my old iPad?”...
Financial Times Digs Gold Out of Data
PARIS — For newspapers, connecting with readers is the ultimate challenge. At newsstands, many customers choose a paper only after they see the headline on the cover. The lady in hair curlers and a ...
Steve Gillmor, Japan, and the Trojan Horse called Facebook Comments
There are increasingly few areas in which my professional background in print publishing comes into play when discussing digital distribution, but one area offers me the opportunity for a direct, and ...
Netflix spooks Hollywood more than ever
LOS ANGELES—Hollywood film executives want you to know that they are not at war with Netflix or the Internet. — Some of them told me over the past week that they have every intention to continue to ...
Apple shipped 1.1 million MacBook Air laptops last quarter, analyst claims
Concord Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed on Saturday that Apple shipped a total of 1.1 million MacBook Air units over the course of the refreshed laptop's first quarter of availability.
Advertising in Skype
Today we announce something new - the launch of advertising in Skype, which will appear in the Home tab in Skype starting this week. — The Skype experience is our first priority, which is why we we'...
Spotify reaches one million subscribers
It seems like only yesterday we were hatching ideas for a new music service in a tiny office-cum-apartment with a broken coffee machine, and the party we threw having reached one million users almost ...
Bing Deals Android and IOS App Leave Windows Phone 7 Users Behind
Contribute content like this. Start here. — While everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, the one that matters most is Microsoft's. It serves as an indicator of what the future holds for W...
Handset Hackers Get Google's Music Syncing Service For Android To Work A Bit Early
Sometimes you just gotta do things because you can, you know? It's the sign of being a true gadget geek. Lets say you stumble across the Music application that comes built into the Motorola Xoom …
Text messages to replace stamps in Sweden
Double click on a word to get a translation — The Swedish postal service plans to give customers' tongues a rest by allowing them to pay their postage via mobile phone text message instead of stamps...
Business Insider Turns A $2,127 Profit On $4.8 Million In Revenue
The Business Insider is now profitable—just barely. In a post this morning reporting the digital media startup's revenues, operating profits, and other metrics, Henry Blodget reveals that his collect...
Charlie Sheen Signs His First Twitter Sponsor: Internships.com
The “Two and a Half Men” star has signed a deal to post an endorsed message for Internships.com as part of efforts …
Not getting enough sleep? Turn off the technology
(Reuters) - Dependence on televisions, cellphones and laptops may be costing Americans dearly — in lack of sleep. — The national penchant for watching television every evening before going to sleep,...
Egyptian Protesters Raid State Security, Post Government Secrets to Facebook
Egyptian rebels stormed the headquarters of the feared State Security Intelligence Directorate this weekend. They stole files indicated that secret policemen spied on Facebook accounts, harassed Copt...
In depth: How Rovio made Angry Birds a winner (and what's next)
This article was taken from the April 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by s...
Dear Apple, Please Copy This Notification System For The iPhone Immediately
As you're aware, I tend to take Apple's side on almost all matters iPhone versus Android. Having tried over a dozen Android devices ranging from the G1 to the Nexus S, I simply still prefer iOS. And...
Streaming Music Service Rdio Gets a Nice Mac App
Rdio, the streaming music service started by the founders of Skype, is releasing a nice, simple desktop app for the Mac this morning. The full-featured program is a great way to avoid dealing with Ad...
Mog, the Digital Music Service, Takes Aim at the TV and the Car
The next frontier for digital music is not a tablet or a smartphone, but two items that have been part of everyday life for decades: the car and the television set. — For years, digital music has be...
Exclusive: BlackBerry 2011 Software Roadmap - OS 7, BIS 4.1, and more!
In the beginning of the year we learned the 2011 BlackBerry lineup through various leaks and roadmaps surfacing. It looks like an exciting year to see RIM release the Dakota/Montana, Malibu, Apollo/S...
Western Digital drops $4.3 billion to acquire Hitachi GST, enter staring contest with Seagate
Yow. Western Digital — the company responsible for shipping the planet's first 1TB 2.5-inch hard drive way back in 2009 — just announced a monstrous deal to acquire one of its primary competitors, Hi...
TV's Next Wave: Tuning In to You
The television is channeling you. — Data-gathering firms and technology companies are aggressively matching people's TV-viewing behavior with other personal data—in some cases, prescription-drug rec...
Why Payments Are Hard, Even For Apple And Google
Editor's note: Guest author Ohad Samet is an expert in managing fraud and other risks in payments systems. He was previously a senior manager at PayPal and blogs at As Risky At It Gets. — We hear a...
AOL-HuffPo Deal Officially Closes Today-More Big Media Hires Signal New Content Direction Under Arianna
AOL will officially close its $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post today, according to several sources close to the situation. — The culmination of the deal-which has already …